Ján Strausz (16 November 1942 – 29 November 2017), nicknamed ''Johan'' after composer

Johann Strauss Johann Baptist Strauss II (; ; 25 October 1825 – 3 June 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger or the Son (), was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas as well as a violinist. He compose ...

, was a Slovak

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

striker who played for Jednota Košice,

Dukla Prague Dukla Prague () was a Czech football club from the city of Prague. Established in 1948 as ATK Praha, the club won a total of 11 Czechoslovak league titles and eight Czechoslovak Cups, and in the 1966–67 season, reached the semi-finals of the ...

(1965–1966),

VSS Košice VSS may refer to: Organizations * Vegetarian Society (Singapore) * Vernon Secondary School, a high school in Vernon, B.C. * Veronis Suhler Stevenson, media company * Victims and Survivors Service, Northern Ireland public body * Voluntary Sports ...

(1963–1965 and 1967–1975), Baník Rožňava, Tatran Prešov and Družstevník Čaňa within years 1960–1979. He overall played 261 matches and scored 115 goals in the

Czechoslovak First League The Czechoslovak First League (, ) was the premier football (soccer), football league in the Czechoslovakia from 1925 to 1993, with the exception of World War II. Czechoslovakia was occupied by German forces who formed Gauliga Sudetenland and Ga ...

.Zomrel Ján Strausz
Strausz was capped once for the

Czechoslovakia national football team The Czechoslovakia national football team (, ) represented Czechoslovakia in men's international Association football, football from 1919 to 1993. The team was controlled by the Czechoslovak Football Association, and the team qualified for eight ...

against

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on 30 May 1965.

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* * 1942 births 2017 deaths Footballers from Mukachevo Slovak men's footballers Czechoslovak men's footballers Czechoslovakia men's international footballers FC VSS Košice players Dukla Prague footballers 1. FC Tatran Prešov players Men's association football forwards {{Czechoslovakia-footy-bio-stub